US Immigration from Canada

Hello all,

Question: USC Wife is filing I-130 (Petition Alien Relative -- Immediate Relative) and mother in law is filing I-485 (AOS) for mother in law whom is visiting us here in USA. Wife and I are filling out I-864 Affidavit of Support right now for that. Wife is unemployed, $0.00 income, I am fully employed, high income/no prob on poverty guidelines).

When my wife fills out her AOS -- it asks for all the assets in the bank accounts, etc for our household. She included all of our bank accounts and it is above poverty guidelines/etc.. Now...is that -sufficient- and we're all set (just her I-864 with all the assets listed), or do we -BOTH- have to fill out an I-864 because her -personal- income is 0.00? As in...wife does I-864, but because she earns 0.00, I must sign do an I-864 as well as a "First of Two Joint Sponsors" (I think?) because i'm the one with the job/income/etc.? We are both legally married for 4 years and have filed Joint-Married tax returns for last 4 years, and live in same household, etc.

Do we need -two- I-864's, even though we are married, just because SHE is the petitioner of her mother and her income is 0.00? Or does USCIS automatically consider us "A couple" (cause we're married), and one I-864 and all our assets/info is sufficient?

Thank you everyone!!!

Hi,

So I am applying for my citizenship and in the application it asks for all previous spousal information. I've got the dates of marriage and divorce along with my divorce certificates but the problem is that I cannot for the life of me remember my 1st husband's exact birthdate. I cannot contact him. I have tried. He is gone from all social media and his phone number is disconnected. His mother passed away a few years ago or I would ask her. He doesn't have any other close family or friends at all that I can remember or would be able to locate. We divorced in 2007 but had been separated since 2005. I have a fairly good guess as to what his birthdate is but I don't want to answer incorrectly. Is it going to be an issue if I leave it blank?

I've requested to see my I-129F document through USCIS but I'm not certain they will have it or could find it as it's pretty old and it wasn't in their list of documents. Any advice? Thanks in advance!

16 hours ago, S9471 said:

ah yes, although that's not entirely accurate - taxes and entitlements for social benefits are also tied to the time spent outside the country and in the province you might be in. you can have US green card and still live a chunk of time in Canada to be eligible.

Social benefits stop the they you endorse the visa. Endorsing the visa tells Canada you are leaving and no longer a Canadian resident. BC is a bit different (there may be another province) as in BC you pay into the provincial health care 30 days in advance. You will continue to have health care in BC for the rest of those 30 days. Now when ppl mention being gone from Canada and returning within a certain time frame to keep their health care that only applies to situations like college kids, snowbirds etc.. As they are not moving permanently away from Canada. When you activate that visa you are telling Canada your gone permanently. Sure life changes and ppl return back but then you also have a waiting period before you qualify for things again.

Hi All,

So I had my n400 interview today after 5 years of having a green card. Most of the interview went well. I passed for the most part except for an exactly 180 day trip I took in 2020 during the height of covid. Initially, I went back home to visit my family in Canada for about a month but when covid hit my flight back was canceled by the airline and to be honest I was terrified to get on a plane with the situation the way that it was. Anyways, I ended up spending exactly 180 days out of the country. The officer said she couldn't approve my case before she saw some evidence that I didn't abandon my residency. I told her I had the evidence in hand but she said, "No." She would send me a letter and I would have to mail her the evidence. Then she would make a decision. I have plenty of evidence, taxes, home ownership, hoa payments, insurance, car lease, bills etc. My question is, has someone on here successfully handled this type of letter? Also what can I do to convince the officer that it was temporary and had everything to do with covid and not any kind of plan to let go of my GC or citizenship application.Also, for those who may ask, I didn't get a re-entry permit.

Thanks,

Sara